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Business Intelligence market consolidation
There were a lot of acquisitions in Business Intelligence market in 2007 - making
it the most turbulent year, so far, in BI. The BI industry has seen a wave of takeovers
since the mid 1990s, with a dramatic boost in 1994 and 2003 but non of them can compare
to 2007.
The following consolidations belongs to the most spectacular ones:
Hyperion Solutions by Oracle
Business Objects by SAP
Cognos by IBM
Some of them were non-consolidating acquisitions like SAP with Business Objects and IBM with
Cognos where Business Objects and Cognos become separate business units, whereas some of
them were a genuine consolidations like Oracle with Hyperion where Hyperion was integrated to
a much greater extent.
The chart below shows consolidation trends and marekt share of top few vendors in 1994-2006.
When we take into consideration top three OLAP vendors they control ca 64% of market, however
five of them control almost 80%.
source: www.olapreport.com
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Business Intelligence tools
The table below shows history of the most important BI acquisitions since 1994.
Year |
Company acquired |
OLAP product(s) |
Price |
Acquirer |
1994 |
Pilot |
LightShip |
~$28m |
Dun & Bradstreet |
1994 |
Info-Innov |
Media |
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Speedware |
1995 |
IOC |
Track |
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DecisionWorks |
1995 |
IRI Software |
Express |
$100m |
Oracle |
1995 |
Soft Systems |
Data-Vision |
$5.2m |
IQ Software |
1995 |
STG |
MetaCube |
$16.5m |
Informix |
1995 |
Prodea |
Beacon |
$36m |
Platinum Technology |
1996 |
Holistic Systems |
Holos |
$84m |
Seagate Software |
1996 |
Sinper |
TM1 |
$11m |
Applix |
1996 |
Panorama |
relaunched as OLAP Services |
~$15m? |
Microsoft |
1997 |
Pilot Software |
|
~$5m? |
Platinum Equity Holdings |
1997 |
Andyne |
PaBLO |
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Hummingbird |
1997 |
AppSource |
WIRED for OLAP |
$6.7m |
Arbor Software |
1998 |
Hyperion Software |
Enterprise, Pillar |
$600m |
Arbor Software, immediately renamed to Hyperion Solutions |
1998 |
IQ Software |
Data-Vision |
$36m |
Information Advantage |
1999 |
SQRIBE |
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$250m |
Brio Technology, subsequently renamed to Brio Software |
1999 |
Sapling |
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$15.5m |
Hyperion Solutions |
1999 |
Cartesis |
Carat |
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PwC |
1999 |
Platinum Technology |
InfoBeacon (later renamed DecisionBase) |
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CA |
1999 |
Information Advantage |
MyEureka! |
$168m |
Sterling |
1999 |
Next Action Technology |
AnswerSets (later renamed to Set Analyzer) |
$8m |
Business Objects |
2000 |
OLAP@Work |
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$15m |
Business Objects |
2000 |
Sterling |
EUREKA:Suite |
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CA |
2000 |
Pilot Software |
|
$19m |
Accrue |
2000 |
Decision·ism |
Aclue |
$10m |
Broadbase |
2001 |
Showcase |
Strategy |
$94m |
SPSS |
2001 |
Maximal |
Max (later renamed to Data Analyzer) |
~$15m |
Microsoft |
2001 |
Informix |
MetaCube |
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IBM |
2002 |
Gentia |
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Open Ratings |
2002 |
WhiteLight |
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SymphonyRPM |
2002 |
Pilot |
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$1.5m |
Pilot Software Acquisition Corporation |
2003 |
Adaytum |
e.Planning |
$157m |
Cognos |
2003 |
Comshare |
MPC and Decision |
$52m |
Geac |
2003 |
CIP |
Executive Suite |
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China Development Corporation |
2003 |
Brio Software |
Intelligence |
$142m |
Hyperion Solutions |
2003 |
Crystal Decisions |
Analysis, Holos |
$1.2bn |
Business Objects |
2003 |
MIS AG |
DecisionWare (including Alea), onVision, Plain
and DeltaMiner |
$42m |
Systems Union |
2004 |
Cartesis |
Magnitude |
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Apax Partners Funds |
2004 |
Alphablox |
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IBM |
| 2004 |
Frango |
Controller, Consolidator |
$52m |
Cognos |
| 2004 |
IntelligentApps |
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Sage Group |
2005 |
INEA |
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Cartesis |
| 2005 |
SRC |
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$100m |
Business Objects |
2005 |
Siebel |
Siebel Analytics |
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Oracle |
| 2006 |
Geac |
MPC |
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Golden Gate Capital (Extensity) |
2006 |
ProClarity Corporation |
ProClarity |
~$50m |
Microsoft |
2006 |
Temtec |
Executive Viewer |
$14.5m |
Applix |
2006 |
MIS |
DecisionWare (including Alea) |
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Infor (Golden Gate Capital) |
| 2006 |
Extensity |
MPC and DecisionWare |
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Infor (Golden Gate Capital) |
| 2006 |
ALG |
EPO |
$56m |
Business Objects |
| 2007 |
Pilot Software |
PilotWorks |
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SAP |
2007 |
Hyperion Solutions |
Essbase, Hyperion Planning, HFM, former Brio |
$3.3bn |
Oracle |
2007 |
Cartesis |
Cartesis Finance, Planning and Analytics |
€225m (~$300m) |
Business Objects |
2007 |
OutlookSoft |
OutlookSoft 5 (formerly Everest) |
$375m? |
SAP |
2007 |
Applix |
TM1 and Executive Viewer |
$339m, $306m net |
Cognos |
2007 |
Longview Solutions |
Khalix |
$51.5m |
Exact Software |
2008 |
Business Objects |
BusinessObjects, Crystal, Cartesis |
$6.8bn
$5.9bn net |
SAP |
| 2008 |
Cognos |
Cognos 8, Planning, Controller, TM1 |
$5bn |
IBM |
| source: www.olapreport.com |
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